Curtain-hanger.



GEORGE H. EMERY, 0F PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CURTAIN-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent` Patented Feb. 18,1913.

Application filed March 29. 1912. lSerial No. 687,127.

yTo all whom. t may concern This invention relates to curtain hangers,-

the object in View being to provide a simple, practical and easily applied deviceof the character specified. made as an entirety from a single sheet metal blank bent and fashioned into shape to provide supporting aud attaching means and also supporting means r for acurtain, shade roller, portire or other form of curtain` together with means for gradually arrest-ing the too rapid revolution of the shade` roller as the shade is wound thereon.

With the above and other objects in View, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invent-ion The fixture or hanger contemplated in this invention is constructed of sheet metal of requisite gage to impart the necessary rigjditv1 thereto and also to provide for the flexibility of the check which arrests the too rapid rotation of the shade roller, as will hereinafter appear.

The blank is bent along the longitudinal line 1 to provide the main depending body portion 2 and a backwardly extending flange 3 designed to restl upon the top of the window casing and supp-ort the' hanger thereon. The flange 2 is cut or punched as shown at "l and smallportions of the flange bentdownward to form impaling prongs which are ldriven into the top of the window casing by striking upon the flange 1 with a hammer or similar implement. The body portion 2 is provided with a pendent lip 6 provided with a hole 7 to receive a nail., screw or like fastener adapted to be driven into the front yof the window casing to prevent any possibility of the hanger becoming detached from the window frame.

One corner of the blank is bent. along the line 8 and extended forward to forni a supporting ear 9 having a hole 10 having the end journal on the curtain `.shade roller. Just above the ear 9 the blank is bent at 11 and extended forward to form a projecting supporting arm or bracket 12terminating in an upwardly opening hook 13 designed to receive a rod or other form of support for a portire or lace curtain. At the opposite lower' corner of the body. the latter is bent at 14 and also curved to form an arched or' substantially semi-circular spring arm 15 terminating in an upwardlv turned .extremity 16, said spring arm being adapted to bear against the curtain shade as it winds upward on the roller supported bv the ear 9, whereby as the' curtain shade increases in size as it windsupon the roller, the spring arm acts as a yielding check which frictionally bears against the curtain shade as it surrounds the roller and 'gradually takes up and reduces the speed of saidroller, thereby.

'check at the opposite end of the body curved to partially surround the curtain roll and frictionally resist the winding of the shade on the roller.

In testimony whereof wI aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. GEORGE II. FJMIRY.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL WV. E'Mnnv,.Ji-., A. S. A'rwoon. 

